Police Nab Bandit With Taste For Fancy Cookies, Espresso

Associated Press

Police say a bandit with a taste for espresso and fancy cookies was nabbed because he asked an officer for directions to a pastry shop.

Stamford Police Lt. Thomas Barcello tells the Stamford Advocate that 26-year-old Donald Newman-Smith's face was covered with a bandanna when he robbed a convenience store on Monday, getting away with around $800.

Soon after, a police investigator was responding to the convenience store when Newman-Smith asked him how to get to the pastry shop.

Later, the investigator recognized the man as he watched surveillance footage of the robbery. Officers went to the shop and found Newman-Smith sitting at an outside table, drinking an espresso with a dozen Pignoli (pin-YOH'-lee) cookies.

A message left at a listing for Newman-Smith was not immediately returned.